When the Library Reading List is available for your module, you can start adding resources for your students to read. A good place to start is by adding some sections to organise your list.

This short video shows how to create sections in your Library Reading List:

Now you've created your sections, you can start adding items to your list.

You can add anything that you need your students to read (or watch or listen to) to your Library Reading List. This includes books, book chapters and journal articles available in the Library collection, and other sources available on the web.

You can either add items while working in your Library Reading List or, using the Cite It browser extension, you can add items from anywhere on the web. You can use Cite It on any website, including Library Search, to easily add items to your lists as you find them. Items can either be added directly to a list or to your favourites, which is a place you can save items to add to your lists later on.

Adding Items within Library Reading List

This video demonstrates how to add items when working in your Library Reading List using three different methods: Search the Library, Import Reference (from a file or reference manager, such as Zotero), and Manual Entry:

Adding Items using Cite It

This video demonstrates how to add the Cite It browser extension and how to use it to add items to your Library Reading List:

Adding tags

Once you have added an item, you need to add tags, to give students some more information. Use tags to help students understand what they are expected to read, and the Library understand what we need to provide.

Use the ‘Essential reading’ or ‘Additional reading’ tags for each citation.  Use the ‘ebook’ tag for all ebook and ebook chapter citations, so that students can quickly and easily filter their lists to just the readings they can access online. If you are adding open access books and journal articles to your lists, there’s an ‘Open Access’ tag for those too! 

Please do not add digital content, such as chapters or journal articles, that have been downloaded from social media sites such as Academia.edu or ResearchGate to your Library Reading Lists. This material may have been uploaded to these sites in violation of licensing agreements and may be in breach of copyright. Read more about finding openly licensed, freely available digital content in our Open Access guide.